Cessna 208B
N208B is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2003. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Merlin Labs INC, a corporation in Boston, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; market survey, dated April 25, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 208B · all 208Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 208B1023
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A1AFD4 (octal 50327724)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Market survey · April 25, 2026
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00042309
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merlin Labs INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 129 South St
Boston, MA 02111-2837
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N208B, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Merlin Labs INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 1, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 25, 2026, 23 years after the 2003 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B1023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N208B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 47G (serial 27, cancelled January 8, 1985); Bell 47D (serial 74, cancelled April 25, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N208B: Accident on May 15, 1982 at Osage Beech, MO: no injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G-2 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data